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Said one Tokyo silk exporter last week: "Among silk exporters the Honorable Tilton is on a level equal to the mulberry leaf and the silkworm." The Honorable Tilton is Marion Elizabeth Tilton, 35, the tall (5 ft. 9 in.), pretty Far East boss of Cohn-Hall-Marx (Cohama Fabrics). In the last ten years, almost singlehanded she has rewoven Japan's quality silk industry, putting it in shape to compete in the U.S. with the flood of postwar synthetics. Under the tutelage of the onetime New York model and wartime Red Cross girl, Japan's silk output rose...
Marion Tilton went to work in Japan for SCAP in 1946 to encourage the growth of Japan's silk industry, once the nation's biggest dollar earner. It seemed a hopeless job. A wartime government order scrapping silk looms as nonessential wrecked the industry in Japan, while U.S. scientists wrecked it abroad by giving women a new set of materials which no hard-working silkworm could hope to match...
...Touch. Before the vacation was over, Mamie too got in a bit of hunting-feminine style. Driving into Thomasville with Mrs. Humphrey, the First Lady (who often gets her clothes from Designer Mollie Parnis) stopped off at Steyerman's Department Store and bought nine dresses-linens, cottons and silk prints (size 14) in small, muted patterns. On impulse Mamie also tried on some of Steyerman's new over-the-fore-head hats. The upshot, familiar to many a U.S. husband, was that she emerged from Steyerman's with the same black pillbox she had been wearing when...
...should be north or south . . . It is comparatively unimportant whether the head or the feet are at the north end of the bed, but it is very important that . . . the body should lie . . . south-north or north-south." On what to wear: "A very long, pure silkworm silk nightgown, sleeveless with a lace top, wide, and so long that it trails for about eight inches on the ground when one stands up . . . no horrid draughts anywhere." On twin beds: "An invention of the devil, jealous of married bliss...
...many years, the only naked part of the female body that could be seen on a French stage was that bit of a cancan dancer's thigh between her black silk stockings and her frilly white drawers. Then, during World War I, the Folies-Bergère started slowly to get undressed. When Italy came into the war on the Allied side, a military march burst from the Folies orchestra, and 20 superb girls dressed as Italian soldiers charged bravely across the stage, each with one breast bared, as cheers rang out and flags waved. In 1918 the first...